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The best charts are well written
Words are an essential component of data graphics. As a minimum, we need them to describe and quantify the data we plot. Without this text, charts are little more than abstract geometry.
However, it’s probably fair to say that not many people consider writing skills to be at the top of the list when it comes to the attributes needed to be a top chart maker. Academic research suggests that this may be flawed thinking.
In 2015, a team of researchers led by Michelle Borkin from the University of British Columbia and Zoya Bylinskii from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology investigated how data visualisations ...
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